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Boro thread


Georgewhitt said:
Calm enough marra.
Just stating truths.
Did you go to Exeter?
You going to Port Vale?
Will you try to go to Anfield if you get them in the next round?
I think we all know the answer to all three of those questions mate.
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Nah you really don't.

I would go to Port Vale. Just like I go to shit loads of away matches every season.

Saying this to the wrong boro poster mate.
 
ERIMUS1876 said:
The four matches Boro have played so far have all been away from home and won in the 90 minutes (no penalties). That's despite resting regular players in every match (for example there were seven changes last night from Saturdays game v Stoke City).

I've been to all those four away matches and Boro have deserved to win them all.

Port Vale will be tough away from home and with a capacity crowd. They beat Mansfield away last night who had not lost all season (19 matches).

If Boro do beat The Valiants, I wonder if they would be the first club ever to get to a League Cup semi-final by winning straight five away matches.
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They will be the 1st one to get there without playing a team in the top 40 I bet
 
joebolton said:
They will be the 1st one to get there without playing a team in the top 40 I bet
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That would possibly be true of course.
What's also true is that Sunderland were given an even 'easier" first round tie.
Crewe (at home too) , a team not even in the top SIXTY!!!!.

Who do you play in the next round again?
Oh yes, it's the tinpot cup that major forces like Sunderland don't bother with - unlike the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea.
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seahamstar said:
That would possibly be true of course.
What's also true is that Sunderland were given an even 'easier" first round tie.
Crewe (at home too) , a team not even in the top SIXTY!!!!.

Who do you play in the next round again?
Oh yes, it's the tinpot cup that major forces like Sunderland don't bother with - unlike the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea.
😜
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We did get to the QF in league one 2 years ago but played Arsenal away. It would have been nice to play Port Vale but that’s the luck of the draw.

For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t mind seeing you get to to final, not win it of course.
 
To be fair -I wish them no ill will in this cup -and if they play the Mags then I wonder whose side we will all be on !?
Good draw for them and with a bit of luck who knows
 
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JL1985 said:
We did get to the QF in league one 2 years ago but played Arsenal away. It would have been nice to play Port Vale but that’s the luck of the draw.

For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t mind seeing you get to to final, not win it of course.
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Coincidentally Boro were drawn against Arsenal in the two-legged Semi-Final of the 2003/04 League Cup. It was the so-called Arsenal "Invincibles" team who went on to be Premier League Champions and unbeaten in all 38 league matches that season.

I say "so-called" Invincibles as Boro beat them home and away in that League Cup Semi-Final and as any Sunderland supporter knows ;) Boro went on to win the League Cup and by doing so gain entry to the UEFA Cup which they competed in two seasons running playing 25 (twenty-five)* matches culminating in reaching the UEFA Cup Final in 2006!

In 50 years following the Boro I have learnt to "expect the unexpected" ... so a defeat at Vale Park looms large!

* Brackets used for confirmation and effect as per the old vidi-printer for those old enough to remember it on Grandstand and World of Sport!
 
seahamstar said:
You obviously dont look at fixtures.
Out of 14 matches so far, you and us have played against the same 9 teams as well as against each other (0-4), so in reality we haven't had any more generous fixtures than you - we're all in the same division.

You're only 2 points ahead of us, despite having a much better start.
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You haven't played Leicester so you have clearly got that wrong 😂
 
seahamstar said:
That would possibly be true of course.
What's also true is that Sunderland were given an even 'easier" first round tie.
Crewe (at home too) , a team not even in the top SIXTY!!!!.

Who do you play in the next round again?
Oh yes, it's the tinpot cup that major forces like Sunderland don't bother with - unlike the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea.
😜
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Thats the thing- by agreeing to play it 48 hours after a league match we pretty much threw the match.. which is an asbolute joke in itself.
 
JL1985 said:
We did get to the QF in league one 2 years ago but played Arsenal away. It would have been nice to play Port Vale but that’s the luck of the draw.

For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t mind seeing you get to to final, not win it of course.
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If that happened I might reserve judgement on whether I wanted them to win it until I knew who they were playing!
 
If the mags get through they are obviously going to get Liverpool looking at the teams they have played so far, likely means one of Boro or Everton will be in the final.
 
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